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<h3>GETPID(2)           Linux Programmer's Manual           GETPID(2)
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<h3>NAME
</h3>       getpid, getppid - get process identification

<h3>SYNOPSIS
</h3>       #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;

       pid_t getpid(void);
       pid_t getppid(void);

<h3>DESCRIPTION
</h3>       getpid  returns  the  process  ID  of the current process.
       (This is often used by routines that generate unique  tem-
       porary file names.)

       getppid  returns  the process ID of the parent of the cur-
       rent process.

<h3>CONFORMING TO
</h3>       POSIX, BSD 4.3, SVID

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<h3>SEE ALSO
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<a href=exec.htm>exec</a>, 
<a href=fork.htm>fork</a>, 
<a href=kill.htm>kill</a>, 
<a href=mkstemp.htm>mkstemp</a>, 
<a href=tmpnam.htm>tmpnam</a>, 
<a href=tempnam.htm>tempnam</a>, 
<a href=tmpfile.htm>tmpfile</a>, 
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<h3>Linux 0.99.11              23 July 1993                         1
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